Jude Law is staying at Disney for a while longer. The actor has already starred in Captain Marvel and is playing Captain Hook in Peter Pan & Wendy later this year, but he’ll soon join the galaxy far, far away.
As announced at Star Wars Celebration today, Law will join Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, a live-action series which has Jon Watts (Spider-Man: No Way Home) directing and Christopher Ford, the writer of Watts’ Spider-Man: Homecoming, penning the scripts.
Recently, a Vanity Fair story seemed to confirm the series was in development under the codename ‘Grammar Rodeo’ – a reference to an episode of The Simpsons in which Bart and his schoolmates steal a car and run away for a week under the pretext of going to a school event.
We’ve learned that the description isn’t too far off, as Skeleton Crew will take place in the New Republic era of The Mandalorian and tells of a group of kids lost in the Star Wars galaxy trying to find their way home. It is described as being in the tone of a classic Amblin coming-of-age adventure films of the 1980s: think E.T. or The Goonies. As yet, there’s no word on Law’s role.
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Jon Watts will helm Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, which is expected to shoot this summer with Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni executive producing.
